So I'm trying to set up Linux on an old laptop I found in the garage. Installed Xubuntu and it detects all hardware (yay!). The problem is in the wireless . I'm using an old WPC54G V.2 I found laying around (it still works, already tested it on a Windows box). At first it seemed like Linux recognized the card (ipconfig, iwconfig, lshw all show the card) and when I do a scan it detects several networks within range (even mine). The thing is that it fails to get an ip address, I can't even ping my router. Ndiswrapper is no help (it detects the driver but not the hardware ). Any ideas...